The role of teacher instructional practices in student collaboration

Contemporary Educational Psychology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 360-381

  Webb, Noreen M ^a   Franke, Megan L ^a   Ing, Marsha ^a   Chan, Angela ^a   De, Tondra ^a   Freund, Deanna ^a   Battey, Dan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Instructional practices; Student collaboration

Indexed keywords

EID: 48349086436     PISSN: 0361476X     EISSN: 10902384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2008.05.003     Document Type: Article

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